October 9, 2025 • 41 mins
Ben Maller talks about who gets the largest piece of the blame for the Dodgers losing to the Phillies, Clayton Kershaw wetting the bed yet again at Dodger Stadium in October, Brewers starter Quinn Priester taking the blame for the loss to the Cubs, and much more!
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in hour one, talk at Bays Ball and who gets
the largest part? Well, starting in the National League, who
gets the largest part of the Dave Roberts blame Bacon
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rapped hot dog as the Philadelphia Phillies use a Kyle
Schwarber bombing run to beat the Dodgers, and we'll discuss
the blame game. Also, how did you react to Clayton Kershaw? Yes,
that Clayton Kershaw, who wet the bed and yet yet
another Dodger Stadium game in October. We'll discuss that. And
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in the other side of the National League bracket, does
Brewers starter, Quinn Priester taking the blame for his shoddy work.
Does it work for you? We'll talk about all of
that and more right now. I know the ostro chant
is excited to hear it here It is our number one.
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They say, come in Ben talk Talk Talk, Talk Talk.
So I come in here and I talk talk talk
every night. Some nights are more then others. Yeah, four
baseball games. They made a big deal about this being
the last time there were four baseball games in twenty
twenty five. You have to wait to the Cactus and
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Grapefruit League in twenty twenty six for that. But I
lead this hour from Los Angeles and from the desert
to the sea to all of southern California. We start
there a knight in the NLDS. It was gonna be
a knockout night if the Dodgers could win the late game.
The Phillies in town, beaten and broken, mocked by their
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fan base after an embarrassing couple of games in Philly,
and the Phillies looking to the only time we use
this term is in sports stave off, stave off elimination
against the Doyers. So out of if you're watching it,
I was on TBS, so whatever that's worth. Maybe you
watched it. Maybe not, but Kyle Schwarber, Kyle Schwarber, who's
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not gonna win the National League MVP, but he'll finish
runner up. Kyle Schwarber Homert not once, but twice. Now,
not all home runs are the same. You know, you
have like Yankee stadiums, like Williams Sports, like a little
league field, and then there's bigger ballparks, and then you know,
Dodger State has become a hitter's park. He used to
be a pitcher's park. Now it's a hitters park. But nothing,
nothing can match the majestic nature of a towering shot
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that actually it upset Tommy Lasorda because it hit Blue Heaven.
The ball was hit so high it actually skimmed Blue
Heaven and Losorda yelled down, what are you doing? Towering shot?
It cleared the right field pavilion at Dodger Stadium, called
the bleachers for most other people, but the pavilion out
there at Dodger Stadium. In a three run fourth inning,
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a game changing three run fourth inning, as Kyle Swarber
got it done and Philadelphia will not be swept, a
domination situation, a win over the Doyers in game three
of the National League Divisional Series on Wednesday night. There
it was the first schwarp bomb of this postseason, and
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it led all of the National League in home runs.
Of course, in the American League had cal Raley, but anyway, nonetheless,
Kyle Schwarber, big home run there, big home run night,
and the first time run the Dodgers have allowed here
in these playoffs to shorebur of course, and it's been
pretty good about keeping the ball in the park. But
Schwarber snapping an over eight skid in the National League
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Divisional Series, and he took a ninety six mile hour
fastball and sent it to the heavens off Yoshinobu Yamamoto
and Schwarber becoming just the second player to home or
over that pavilion at Dodgers Stadium as Pops got it
done back in the old days Willie Stargel nineteen sixty
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nine and did it again in nineteen seventy three for
the pet sparkpipes. You know, it was a long time
ago because it was the Pirates who had a good team,
and they haven't had a good team in a very
long time. But so there you go. Paul went out
of the ballpark which is very hard to do. Dodger Stadium.
Game four will be a quick turnaround in the best
of five series. And we played later on Thursday, late
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afternoon on the West coast, six o'clock on the East coast,
three o'clock at Dodgers Stadium local time. And the game
started here Phillies Aaron Nola. He pitched two innings. That's it.
But it was really Ranger Suarez who came in and
the lone ranger on the mate. I had one run,
five hits over five innings and got it done. But
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the better story is in the losing locker room, and
so that is where we will go. The better story
always in the losing locker room because that's where the
drama is. And we live for the drama. It's all
about the drama o rama. So we'll start there. The
question for the esteem panel, who gets the largest part
of the Dave Roberts blame Bacon rapped hot Dog. And
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if you've ever been to a game in La, it
doesn't matter whether it's Dodgers or anything. Outside there's people
with carts and they are happing the cart. Hot Dog,
hot Dog, hot Dog. That is what they that's the
sign right there. All right, So on this one, I've
got Buka to Beppo Autumn and puffy sticker, and we'll
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throw all of these things together and we are going
to make some heartburn medication, because watching the Dodgers off
and inspires heartburn. So a, why don't we just start
with the man on the mound. The man on the mound.
You're the big Baffo Soco, big stud on the mound.
You are the number one pitcher for the Dodgers, Yamamoto.
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And this is not a kid's birthday party. You did
not need to turn out to be a pinata in
that inning the Dodgers. He got an early lead as
Tommy Tanks went deep there went and runs nothing. But
you still have a lead. And every inning that goes
by where the Phillies do not score, the tight took
his syndrome works for those guys get a little bit tighter,
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litle bit tighter, and a little bit tighter. So he
needed Yamamoto to go Einstein Brothers serve up a bunch
of bagels on the scoreboard. Now, he did start out
pretty good, retired nine of the first ten hitters. Then
in the fourth inning right then in the fourth inning.
How did that go? Not good? He wandered into a
Buca di beppo kitchen. I didn't know they had this
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at Dodger State. Apparently do they got everything else there,
So they have a Buka di beppo kitchen. And Yamamoto
walked in there and he put on some cooking clothes.
You know, you had the cooking hat, the whole thing.
And he actually served up a meatball. And I want
to imbellish it because you know talk Rado can embellish it.
It was the size and I'm not going to go bigger.
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It was the size of Jupiter. And Schwarbert put on
a bib and very odd to see this. You don't
know what this is. But kaswarb one of the BattleBox
he had a bib on and he smashed it to
the moon, to the moon, and suddenly the entire vibe
flipped on the game. The ball actually landed. We checked
with NASA. It landed somewhere in Pasadena. The baseball landed
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somewhere in Pasadena. And so it wasn't just Yamamoto the
Dodger bats mister seven hundred million dollar man show. Heyl
Tani had as many hits as you and I had
Oero for five. He's patting a buck seventy four, a
buck seventy four in this playoffs it is Freddie Freeman,
Oh for three, Freddy's batt in two twenty two and
it's a quarter of the side of the Devil. And
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those are a couple of your superstars, the Philly you
give credit where credits You mentioned Rangers four as the
lone Ranger who came in after Aaron Nola's started, pitched
a couple innings and shut the Dodger lineup down, mowed
them down like child's play. And it's always fun when
the Dodgers do not play one of the plus because
this era, you see Dave Roberts over there with that
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we'll figure it out later a look on his face, right,
Robert's always standing there like waiting for a door dash
delivery from Emmy FAMMI rather from Femmy to give him
the door dash. No urgency right vintage. Now, as for
the Phillies, I would like to nip something in the
bud right now. I'm partaking in some of the some
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of the narrative coming out of Dodgers Stadium and a
lot of the bloviating cheese steak loving pretzel eating Philadelphia
sportsmans are like, Wow, the Phillies have all the momentum.
Now they've got all the momentum. The only momentum I
know is Uncle Mo, and he lives over in Jersey.
I used to know this guy named Ozzie momentum, but
he kind of retired from the show, so I don't
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know any other momentum in that momentum does not exist
in sports. I will die on that mountain because I'm
right and everyone else is an idiot. Momentum is simply
an after the fact explanation. If you believe in momentum,
then the Dodgers should have won this game. They had
all the momentum. They won the first two games. They
had nothing leading this game. You'm a motor retired nine
of the first ten batters. There is no such thing
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as momentum. It is merely an explanation for after the fact,
meaning it is ignored when the team that is alleged
to have all the momentum loses. For example, we'll get
to the American League later on next hour. But the Yankees,
I was told by Dark Jeter on Fox the Yankees
had all the momentum in that series because they won.
They scored a bunch of runs late in the blowout
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Game two, and then they came back in one game three,
and so how'd that work out? It doesn't, It doesn't exist,
all right. Now, now we get to the good stuff.
Now here's a batting practice fastball. As a longtime radio
professional text me from another location, Mallard. He says, your
night is made, and I said, you know what, You're right.
We had the rare and appropriate sighting of playoff Kershaw.
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I am still getting messages from you idiots about a
monologue I did when the Dodgers did a mock state funeral,
when kurshed up it's just final hope game, and I
pointed out what a failure Kershaw has been as a Dodger.
I was still got a name of it this week.
I got an email the other day, a couple days
ago from So, I heard your monologue. You know it
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always says I used to like your show, but which
means you never liked my show. Right, you never liked
my show? But whatever? Fine. So Kershaw was brought in.
He was tasked with the Dodgers were trailing. He was
tasked with keeping La within arm's length, to keep them
in the game down three to one, give them an opportunity,
allow them a chance to come back in the game.
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Against the Phillies, bullpen set up the choke factor. How
do you set the choke factor up? You're within striking
distance and that's what you gotta do. Okay, So that
was what he was asked to do, Kershaw. So you
know what I like, charity. I'm going to be charitable.
And you get a hit, You get a hit, you
get a home run, you get a home run, you
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the whole thing. The Philly hitters I actually saw on
the Turner broadcast. Their eyeballs looked like saucers. It was
like saucers, very accommodating Clayton Kershaw. In fact, six of
the phillies twelve hits, half of the hits for the
entire gate came against playoff Kershaw, Are you idiots defending
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this guy? He got absolutely shelled. Your little hero got shelled,
you little god, your little Demi god got shelled. J. T.
Riamuto and Kyle Swarber hit bombs. Just classic, just classic. Anyway,
here is Clayton Kershaw pointing out that he was bad.
Take a listen.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Oh it's just a tough yeah, tough couple of the
seventh good played by Tayo. And then yeah, I just
did make enough good pictures. I was battling command. You know,
it's it's hard when you're trying to throw strikes as
opposed to get people out.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
So that was.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Yeah, just wasn't funny, Okay, just not a funny thing.
All right, here's the question, how did you react to
Clayton Kershaw wetting the bed? He wetted the bed yet
again at Dodger Stadium in October. So that was nostalgic
with a capital N. And it's fitting that should be
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his final outing as a Dodger. That should be it.
Either they're gonna get gonna lose this series, the Phillies
gonna come back and win the next two games and
Kershaw should go away retire after that, or the Dodgers
win this series and Kershaw should not be on the
roster in the National League Championship Series. He's washed up.
But if you want to break it down even deeper,
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you know what that really was watching Clayton Kershaw on
the mound in October baseball, That is autumn in Los Angeles.
It is autumn in Los Angeles. Now the rest of
the country gets pumpkin spice lattes, you get crisp cool air,
you get leaves changing colors, the signs of the seasons
in Los Angeles. You know that it's autumn when Clayton
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Kershaw is writing the vomit comet over the skies around
Dodger State, and that is autumn in La Clayton Kershaw
come boom to the boom, just like that. At this point,
it's muscle memory for Clayton Kershaw. It's like he can
do it blindfolded. It even looks like he's blindfolded. On
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the mound in every October, the man steps on the mound,
he's got the shoulders slump, the face looks like he
just found out someone keyed his brand new tesla. You know,
Kershaw's serving up for let right down the middle, right
down the middle, batting practice fastballs. He called those the
five thirty fastballs, right down the middle. And the phillies.
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They weren't so much swinging bats up there. They were
swinging tennis rackets, is what they were doing. And despite
this rich catalog of suck, every single time It is
the most fascinating thing the study of hero worship. Every
single time the Kershaw apologist in southern California crawl out
from under their palm trees and they give the same speech.
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I'll give out the number here and you know, I'll
open up her phone calls. Of course, the Kershaw marching
and shout of society won't call in because there's really
nothing you can say. But I know the speech anyway,
I've heard it so many times over the last fifteen years.
I don't need you to call up and give me
the speech. It's well, you know, but ye, yeah, but yeah,
but he's a Hall of Famer, yeah but yeah, but yeah,
he's done so much for the city. Yeah but yeah,
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or you have his Dave Roberts fault, Yeah but yeah,
but yeah, but yeah. Okay, I've heard it all. I've
heard it all. I've seen it all. Okay, Right, so
he did a lot for the city. Great, so did
the guy who invented the snuggie. Uh, you want to
put him in the Hall of Fame. Doesn't mean I
want him pitching in a postseason game. I don't. I don't.
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I doubt the mayor of Barf City and the numbers
since twenty twenty three. Kershaw's era in the postseason is horrific.
Since twenty eighteen, he's got an ERA five point one,
and since twenty twenty three has earned run average is
forty two point eight. That's not a misprint. Forty two
point eight postseason era since the start of the twenty
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twenty three postseason. That is baseball armageddon. And and the
body of language with Kershaw is another great part of this, right.
Nobody does it better the I just gave up another
bomb face than Clayton Kershaw. He's got it down. It
is art. It is performance art by Clayton Kershaw. The
head down, that little lip twitch thing that he's got
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a little shuffle around the mound, you cue the organ music,
the mock funeral, and as Jim Nantz would say, tradition
unlike any other. Now that would be the that should
be it. And they're gonna give him like seven statues
because the Dodgers are all about that action now, So
why not give Kershaw a statue of him with the
head down, the shoulder shrug and all that worst big
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game picture of the modern era. And it's not even close.
The guy is a picasso on a Wednesday night against
the Rock He's at Dodger Stadium and against the Phillies
in a playoff game in October on a Wednesday night.
It's a finger painting. It's a kindergarten piece of art,
is what it is. And they had to dig up
the mound after every postseason Shelly, it's essentially a crime
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scene when Kershaw so bad, guys, He's bad, all right. Now,
last word to Chicago we go and this this was
not a closed out game. It could have been, but
believe it or not, the Cubbies for your Femi and
Eugene in Chicago, and Tree and all my guys in
the mallad militia there in Chicago. The Cubs showed that
they are not ready to just roll over and go
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on vacation and go down to cancuon tee times on hold,
as Chicago put up a four run spot on the
Brewers start at Quinn Priester in the first thing. But
this series, what is going on? All these runs scored
early and then not a whole bunch of runs scored
after that. But Quinn Priester on the mound was amazing
for the Brewers. In the regular season in the first inning,
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and then the Cubs had to hold on. They scored
all of their runs in the first inning and did
just enough to win by the hair on their chinny
chin chin as they got a strong effort from the
bullpen there. The Brewers did, but not enough so they
couldn't come all the way back four to three the
final in favor of the team from Chicago, so we
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get a game four later on on Thursday. Now, after
the game, Quinn Priester he playing the blame game. He
pointed the finger entirely at himself. He said, quote everyone
else played real well, with the exception of myself. That's
entirely on me. Close quote all right, question, does Brewers
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starter Quinn Priester taking the blame work for you? So
the way I'll answer this is, I do enjoy athletes
just admitting they sucked. I think that's important. I'll give
you a puffy sticker for owning it. That said, it
does not change the fact that he shriveled up like
a grape in the sun. Who This is a guy
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that had been big balls, Bob our guy from Vegas
big balls all regular season. And so I'll give you
a little bit of a golf clap. I'll call you
a mensch. Congratulations, you're a mensch for saying that they
don't hand out like parade floats and all that for
quality quotes. In Milwaukee had opportunities, like they were playing
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with matches. Eventually they got burned here and now they
got to sweat it out. Right, Now you got to
sweat it out. You get you know, game four suddenly
becomes a bigger deal. I would play Game four like
it's Game five and you have Game five in your
back pocket. But the Cubs, now they can smell blood
in the ivy. Should not be blood in the ivy.
Maybe Doc Mike puts them out there in the ivy.
But Chicago, they've turned this thing into a little bit
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more of a street fight. Not quite there yet. There
is no such thing as momentum. But in terms of
circling back to Quinn Priester taking the blame and all that,
a guy that dominated during the regular season. Remember, as
the baseball marketing slogan from years ago went legends are
born in October, Well legends also die in October. If
you want reference, look at Clayton Kershaw for an example.
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So you've got to do better, and you've got to
be better, and there's no guarantee this guy gets another start.
That could be all she wrote. That could be the
end of the road in terms of playoff baseball for
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the Dodger Phillies game. But because that's that series. Wow,
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do you want to be kidding me? Yeah? Well, but
also the Cubs and the Brews. You want to talk
about that. I watched both games and slipping back and forth.
They're a little Chile in Chicago. It's getting to October.
Nowns there you little cold La not so much, not
so much. But the Dodgers serve up some meatballs there,
vintage Kershaw performance, the dwarf Man writes, And this guy's
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a big time comic, he says. Whenever Turnshaw is on
the mound, they always cut to a shot of Sandy Kovax.
That is so crazy. When Kofax is there for the playoffs,
they fly him and he lives in Florida, they fly
him in for the playoffs, and that you're right, it's
like they have a production meeting before every playoff game.
Is all right with perch Shaw's in cut to Sandy Kofax,
and the Darfman points out, as if these two are
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in the same universe. I know, it's so stupid. Sports
Plus tells us that Pasadena is about ten miles from
Dodger Stadium. So yeah, Schwarber's home run landed. It actually
landed on Colorado Boulevard, right near that cheesecake factory on
Colorado Boulevard. Is amazing, Nature Boy says, I gotta admit
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that he answers the call of the while he's yeah,
a ranger. Ranger is a cool name, he says, Rangers
a cool name, and the Dodgers just need to stave
off eighth inning relief pitchers and they'll be fine. That's
what they gotta do. What else do we have to see?
Page nin This guy Donut. I think we found Kershaw's
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burner account. The Donut I believe is the name there.
He's a very heard, he's got his dodger once, he's
he's a little shrine to Kershaw, a little fanboy shrine
to Kershaw. What a dope? What else do we have?
This is a I laugh? Oh god, So I love
this job. It's because of people like that that I
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love this job. The people that just are losers, Oh
my god, I love the losers. Big Lou rites in
from the LBC, says Clayton Kershaw. His pitches looked similar
to Mallord pitching at the Inland Empire sixty six ers game. Well,
Big Lou, first of all, you're wrong. You're referring to
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the pitch. I believe that was in Bakersfield with the
old Bakersfield Blaze, with Rod, the Ambassador of Bakersfield. We
went out there throughout the first pitch years ago, had
a great time. It was magical and hopefully I'm hoping
if things work out with our buddy Mike in New Hampshire,
and in the Leprechaun, we pushed back our Boston sojourn.
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We want to honor Masshole Mickey who passed away last year.
And hopefully we can go to a WU Socks game
and like throw out the first pitch there. That'll be
like the next time, hopefully if all things line up
in the summer of twenty twenty six, and I will
show everyone the velocity, the ferocity that I have on
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the mound. Hugh on the five, all right, since it's
been my exact comment when Kershank got on the mound
was Kershaw is going to end his career barfing? And yeah,
that's exactly what happened. Mark, the full name guy says
two two is a third, not a quarter of or
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one force of the devil six sixty six Shobert really
caused you some brain damage? Well, no, Mark, I could
do a perfect show. I just want to make sure
that you're paying attention. So occasionally I'll throw a mistake
in there because I know you're so so tight. Shall
we say, you got to stick up your keyster that
you're going to comment when I make a mistake, But
(27:23):
I do it intentionally. I do it for you. Otherwise
I can do a perfect show. If I choose to
do a perfect show, I'd like to throw mistakes in
just to make sure you're listening. Keep you on your toes.
Thank you for that, Thank you. That's what I'm here for. Yes, exactly.
Mark's retired as a caller. He could not handle. And
it's not easy to be a talk radio caller. You
gotta stay ont hold for a while. You don't know
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when I'm gonna go to you. You don't know how
much airtime you're gonna get. It's not that easy. It's
it is a grind. And much like professional athletes have
to retire from calling talk radio, Mark the full name guy,
his body could not handle it. Jason the Diamond Man
writes and says, if you look up vomit comet in
the dictionary, the eighth inning of that game is the
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picture under it. Ben Mahler, without a doubt, the perfect
a block of our number one. Well, thank you, number
I do appreciate that, very kind. All right, let's go
to the phones and let's see who do we have
here page. Let's go, Let's go to j. Who's in La. Hello, J,
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You're on Fox Sports Radio. It is the Ben Mahler Show.
Speaker 7 (28:32):
Hello J Mallard, how are you?
Speaker 1 (28:35):
If I was any better, I'd be a Shaw, but
not Kershaw because he got lit up.
Speaker 7 (28:41):
He did, he did, But I don't blame him. I
just think that day hung him out to dry. And
with that being said, I think all the energy was
wasted in his first innings. I just want to know
who your team is, because if you thinksh All was
the worst guy out there, who would you have thrown
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out there?
Speaker 1 (29:06):
By the way, you know what I love about you
is I mentioned in the monologue all of the excuses
the Kershaw marching in shadow society, I think, and you
just repeated them verbatim. I mean, my god, just you literally,
just you that was a carbon copy what I just said.
He literally by ten minutes. Ten minutes ago. I did
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a fifteen, I did a monologue, and I went through
all of the excuses the Kershaw clan give, and you
just laid them all out perfectly. Are you psyched? Then?
Apparently I am. I had no idea blame Dave Roberts.
It's oh my god, how about some accountability? How about Kershaw?
How about him? How about you sure retired? He's hurting
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the Dodgers yet again. How about the fact that guy's
cost him three championships? How about that who is.
Speaker 7 (29:55):
Better than Khaw? This age?
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Anybody in the playof Are you, my god? Are you
out of your bloody mind? I know you're a little fanboy,
but my god, the guy blows? What do you want?
My god? Are you trolling me? This must be you're
trolling me? Right, You've got to be troubling. You can't
be a human being that watches baseball and say who
else is better than Kershaw? My god, historically in the
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baseball has been played since the eighteen eighties or whatever.
He's one of the worst all time in big games?
Who would you go to at that point when they're oh,
my god, when there's no ball behind them? You do
understand Kershaw shouldn't eve be on the roster? Do you
understand that? Like he's done, He's been done for years.
Speaker 7 (30:41):
That is how terrible the bullpen I will get.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Are you agree with mine?
Speaker 7 (30:45):
That are?
Speaker 1 (30:45):
But don't don't blame Day. I love ripping Day Roberts
as much as anybody, but don't blame Roberts on this. Okay,
Kershaws have grown up. He gives me so Kershaw sucks
so much, so you're admitting he blows that he can
only pitch one eating. The guy stinks that you snuck
him out there. You got an inning out of him,
and he's so bad. You gotta take Kershew off the mounta.
(31:07):
You're telling me that more. Alright, I got I gotta go.
Thank you, all right, I appreciate it's gonna go bang
my head against Isn't that great? Lorena? I mean, I
literally I was mocking the Kershaw marching in shout of Society,
and my man Jay immediately calls up and repeats the
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talking points memo that I laid out word for word.
Oh my god, oh my god. Yes, all right, but
I do like the Dodgers, But unlike guys like David Vasse,
I'm actually critical of the Dodgers. I don't lick the
player's toes, unlike those guys. Jonathan in Delaware. There's sound
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of it right there, Jonathan Delaware, he writes in He says,
all I have to say about Clayton Kershaw is Seriously, though,
is there a worse big game picture than him, especially
considering how good he's been in the regular season. I've
never seen anything like it. He always has the yips
in the postseason. I hope they start him every single game. Yeah,
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he says Jonathan in Delaware, laughing at the Doyers. Well again,
he should not pitch again. They should just take him
off the playoff roster and that's it. Super Market Steve says,
what's your opinion or what's opinion rather? Do you think
incites more rage from the bleeding heart Dodger fan base?
(32:31):
Your opinion that Clayton Kershaw was overrated or my opinion
that Vin Scully was overrated. I've had people take swings
at me because I told him I didn't like Vin. Well, yeah,
the Vin thing's more offensive. The Vin things more offensive.
The people that think Kershaw is overrated or right. The
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people that think Scully was overrated are wrong. See there's
a difference there. There's a point of demarkation with that conversation.
Texas Bryan, who's still mourning the loss of Luka Doncik
to the Lakers, He says, the Doyer's bullpen was so pathetic.
I swear I saw Sandy Kofax yelling down to Dave
Roberts put me in coach LA's cooked, Philly's got the juice.
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Now there is no juice. Stop with that. Listen. I
love bashing Kershaw on the Dodgers when they play like that.
There's no woman. The Dodgers can come back, go win
with Glass. Now the series will be over. That's it now.
I personally hope there is a Game five this weekend.
I would like to see it because I love that situation.
The choke factor is very high, and I'm there for it.
Fat Daddy writes in he says, you nailed your monologue.
(33:39):
I was wondering, is there away? Dave Roberts is eligible
for the wild card and the next In the next round,
Daniel says. Vassay says, for every time Kershaw has a
bad outing, he can give an example of a good one.
Can we give you two on a debate? Get you
on two hundred? Debate about it soon. Well, it's harder
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to bait Vessa because he's buddy buddies with those guys,
so he's kind of compromised. So I'm not friends with
those guys, so I can actually give an honest opinion.
When your buddies with him, it becomes a problem. It's
like Howard Stern. First, you know Stern lost it years ago.
But when he was good at talk radio, he never
wanted to be friends with celebrities because he wanted to
ask him tough questions things like that. And it's true,
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once he became friends with celebrities, his show was terrible.
That was the point his show started sucking when he
started becoming friends with all the people he used to
goof on and he wanted to be friends with him.
And so it's general, you gotta you gotta have some
separation from that, definitely, Rob writes in and says mallardly
Dodgers cheerleader and sycophant. On Suicide Watch, he says about
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about to lose Game four is going on. I don't,
I don't know what that means. I'm I expect him
to lose. I hope they win, but I expect them
to lose. I don't. I don't know what you're talking about, Scrooge,
says Ben. How can you not blame Dave Roberts. We
all know, oh, Kershaw does not show up in the
postseason yet. Roberts is the jackass who keeps on throwing
Kershaw out there, knowing he's got a decade of experience
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choking away games when they met. Well, Roberts says, well,
I liked him in that spot. I liked him in
that spot, is what he says. It is the ben
malechow random Ryan writes in He's in Carolina, he says,
a plus in a five piece of smoked Carolina gold barbecue. Yummy, yummy, yummy.
Can I get some brisket wing? He says, barbecue wings.
(35:32):
I'll take that. Not a monologue. Didn't see any baseball
tonight because I was at work, but I'm pretty sure
it happened. Yeah, I did. It did, Actually, it did happen.
There were I mean not. You know, it's all day.
It's like NonStop. It's like a lot of baseball from
like the afternoon to the nighttime, the whole of the
whole shebang. So the Toronto Blue Jays, we're talk more
(35:56):
about this as we go through the night. The Blue
Jays have eliminated, exterminated the Yankees from the postseason. The
Yankees are out of the baseball postseason, and so the
victor goes to music and in the visitors' locker room
at Yankee Stadium, Toronto, celebrating with champagne. The Bubbly Bath
theres they advanced to the Final four of Major League Baseball,
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and the Blue Jays cranked up the old boom box
in the locker room, and they were playing New York,
New York in the locker room, the iconic Sinatra song
there in a celebration to troll the Yankees. And sure
some Yankee fanboys will be triggered by that, But maybe
you should win some of these series and then people
can't be doing that in your ballpark. I'm just saying.
(36:41):
I'm just pointing that out time now for the who
am I? Game? This is where I pretend to be
somebody else else. We call it the who am I Game.
We'll also have the play of the Night. We'll get
to that, but here is the who am I Game?
Since pitch tracking first started way back in nineteen eighty eight,
so that's a long time ago, I am the only
reliever to allow home run on the first pitch I threw,
but still pitch five or more innings and earn a
(37:05):
victory in a postseason game against its pitch tracking started
in nineteen eighty eight, I am the only reliever ever
in that time period to allow a home run on
the first pitch but throw five plus innings and earn
a victory in a postseason game. Who Am I. We'll
get to that and we'll do it next.
Speaker 5 (37:22):
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But first time now for the play of the day.
And hadn't seen this in a long time. I guess
they hadn't purchased the right the right ingredients to make
the bomb. But there was the play of the night,
the play of the night at Dodgers Stadium, the Dodgers
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and the Phillies, and it was the tire Raq player
the night. Kyle Schwarber at the.
Speaker 8 (38:43):
Plate, He's from the right side. That ball's crushed steep
to right field. Hernandez doesn't even move. It is long gone.
HiT's off the roof for the pavilion in right field.
Kyle Schwarber his first postseason home run of the year.
It's his twenty second of his career and with a
lightning strike, the Phillies tie it up at one and.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
That would be the first of two home runs. The
second one kind of half a home run kiming us Kershaw.
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This is where we pretend to be somebody else. A
blatant attempt to get you to listen a little bit longer.
Since pitch tracking started in nineteen eighty eight, I am
the only reliever to allow home run on the first
pitch I threw, and still tossed five or more innings
and earned a victory in a postseason game. That is
the question. What's the answer? Femi in Minnesota going with
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Ted Cruz, Jaba Chamberlain from Malibu, Rubin switch pitcher Greg A. Harris,
who to be confused with Greg W. Harris, the Alien Opiner.
I remember him more as a Red Sox, but you
sent a picture of him as an expo. Biggie Smalls
from Bobby and Florida. David Passe from Mallo prop Guy,
(40:12):
Freddie Simpson from Mister Irrigation. That's his answer, Marianna RIVERA
guess by Andy in Line o' Lakes, Minnesota. Bob walk Man. Yeah,
he still looks the same, by the way, mister nice guy.
He's doing. He does some Pirates games on TV. I
liked him better when he ran Yes, Ferd Dog went
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with Aaron Judges' playoff moment. Yeah, remember that embarrassing for
Joe Davis. He said Aaron Judge at his playoff ball,
but it was so stupid. Oh my god. Shane and
de Mone going with former game cock Sidney Rice as
his answer. Connie Stevens from William Dieter brocus by rich
in Vegas. It's his answer. Fun size Ken Rosenthal from
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The Nature Boy. All right, Loreno, what say you? Lorrain
up aunt Jemima and Jemima she got canceled. No, it
is incorrect. The correct answer. It just actually happened on
Wednesday night Ranger Suarez of the Philadelphia Phillies against the Dodgers.
In fact, not only the postseason since nineteen eighty eight
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that had not happen in the regular season, so historical
night for Ranger Suarez
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in hour one, talk at Bays Ball and who gets
the largest part? Well, starting in the National League, who
gets the largest part of the Dave Roberts blame Bacon
(00:43):
rapped hot dog as the Philadelphia Phillies use a Kyle
Schwarber bombing run to beat the Dodgers, and we'll discuss
the blame game. Also, how did you react to Clayton Kershaw? Yes,
that Clayton Kershaw, who wet the bed and yet yet
another Dodger Stadium game in October. We'll discuss that. And
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in the other side of the National League bracket, does
Brewers starter, Quinn Priester taking the blame for his shoddy work.
Does it work for you? We'll talk about all of
that and more right now. I know the ostro chant
is excited to hear it here It is our number one.
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They say, come in Ben talk Talk Talk, Talk Talk.
So I come in here and I talk talk talk
every night. Some nights are more then others. Yeah, four
baseball games. They made a big deal about this being
the last time there were four baseball games in twenty
twenty five. You have to wait to the Cactus and
(03:08):
Grapefruit League in twenty twenty six for that. But I
lead this hour from Los Angeles and from the desert
to the sea to all of southern California. We start
there a knight in the NLDS. It was gonna be
a knockout night if the Dodgers could win the late game.
The Phillies in town, beaten and broken, mocked by their
(03:30):
fan base after an embarrassing couple of games in Philly,
and the Phillies looking to the only time we use
this term is in sports stave off, stave off elimination
against the Doyers. So out of if you're watching it,
I was on TBS, so whatever that's worth. Maybe you
watched it. Maybe not, but Kyle Schwarber, Kyle Schwarber, who's
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not gonna win the National League MVP, but he'll finish
runner up. Kyle Schwarber Homert not once, but twice. Now,
not all home runs are the same. You know, you
have like Yankee stadiums, like Williams Sports, like a little
league field, and then there's bigger ballparks, and then you know,
Dodger State has become a hitter's park. He used to
be a pitcher's park. Now it's a hitters park. But nothing,
nothing can match the majestic nature of a towering shot
(04:17):
that actually it upset Tommy Lasorda because it hit Blue Heaven.
The ball was hit so high it actually skimmed Blue
Heaven and Losorda yelled down, what are you doing? Towering shot?
It cleared the right field pavilion at Dodger Stadium, called
the bleachers for most other people, but the pavilion out
there at Dodger Stadium. In a three run fourth inning,
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a game changing three run fourth inning, as Kyle Swarber
got it done and Philadelphia will not be swept, a
domination situation, a win over the Doyers in game three
of the National League Divisional Series on Wednesday night. There
it was the first schwarp bomb of this postseason, and
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it led all of the National League in home runs.
Of course, in the American League had cal Raley, but anyway, nonetheless,
Kyle Schwarber, big home run there, big home run night,
and the first time run the Dodgers have allowed here
in these playoffs to shorebur of course, and it's been
pretty good about keeping the ball in the park. But
Schwarber snapping an over eight skid in the National League
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Divisional Series, and he took a ninety six mile hour
fastball and sent it to the heavens off Yoshinobu Yamamoto
and Schwarber becoming just the second player to home or
over that pavilion at Dodgers Stadium as Pops got it
done back in the old days Willie Stargel nineteen sixty
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nine and did it again in nineteen seventy three for
the pet sparkpipes. You know, it was a long time
ago because it was the Pirates who had a good team,
and they haven't had a good team in a very
long time. But so there you go. Paul went out
of the ballpark which is very hard to do. Dodger Stadium.
Game four will be a quick turnaround in the best
of five series. And we played later on Thursday, late
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afternoon on the West coast, six o'clock on the East coast,
three o'clock at Dodgers Stadium local time. And the game
started here Phillies Aaron Nola. He pitched two innings. That's it.
But it was really Ranger Suarez who came in and
the lone ranger on the mate. I had one run,
five hits over five innings and got it done. But
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the better story is in the losing locker room, and
so that is where we will go. The better story
always in the losing locker room because that's where the
drama is. And we live for the drama. It's all
about the drama o rama. So we'll start there. The
question for the esteem panel, who gets the largest part
of the Dave Roberts blame Bacon rapped hot Dog. And
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if you've ever been to a game in La, it
doesn't matter whether it's Dodgers or anything. Outside there's people
with carts and they are happing the cart. Hot Dog,
hot Dog, hot Dog. That is what they that's the
sign right there. All right, So on this one, I've
got Buka to Beppo Autumn and puffy sticker, and we'll
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throw all of these things together and we are going
to make some heartburn medication, because watching the Dodgers off
and inspires heartburn. So a, why don't we just start
with the man on the mound. The man on the mound.
You're the big Baffo Soco, big stud on the mound.
You are the number one pitcher for the Dodgers, Yamamoto.
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And this is not a kid's birthday party. You did
not need to turn out to be a pinata in
that inning the Dodgers. He got an early lead as
Tommy Tanks went deep there went and runs nothing. But
you still have a lead. And every inning that goes
by where the Phillies do not score, the tight took
his syndrome works for those guys get a little bit tighter,
(08:00):
litle bit tighter, and a little bit tighter. So he
needed Yamamoto to go Einstein Brothers serve up a bunch
of bagels on the scoreboard. Now, he did start out
pretty good, retired nine of the first ten hitters. Then
in the fourth inning right then in the fourth inning.
How did that go? Not good? He wandered into a
Buca di beppo kitchen. I didn't know they had this
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at Dodger State. Apparently do they got everything else there,
So they have a Buka di beppo kitchen. And Yamamoto
walked in there and he put on some cooking clothes.
You know, you had the cooking hat, the whole thing.
And he actually served up a meatball. And I want
to imbellish it because you know talk Rado can embellish it.
It was the size and I'm not going to go bigger.
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It was the size of Jupiter. And Schwarbert put on
a bib and very odd to see this. You don't
know what this is. But kaswarb one of the BattleBox
he had a bib on and he smashed it to
the moon, to the moon, and suddenly the entire vibe
flipped on the game. The ball actually landed. We checked
with NASA. It landed somewhere in Pasadena. The baseball landed
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somewhere in Pasadena. And so it wasn't just Yamamoto the
Dodger bats mister seven hundred million dollar man show. Heyl
Tani had as many hits as you and I had
Oero for five. He's patting a buck seventy four, a
buck seventy four in this playoffs it is Freddie Freeman,
Oh for three, Freddy's batt in two twenty two and
it's a quarter of the side of the Devil. And
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those are a couple of your superstars, the Philly you
give credit where credits You mentioned Rangers four as the
lone Ranger who came in after Aaron Nola's started, pitched
a couple innings and shut the Dodger lineup down, mowed
them down like child's play. And it's always fun when
the Dodgers do not play one of the plus because
this era, you see Dave Roberts over there with that
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we'll figure it out later a look on his face, right,
Robert's always standing there like waiting for a door dash
delivery from Emmy FAMMI rather from Femmy to give him
the door dash. No urgency right vintage. Now, as for
the Phillies, I would like to nip something in the
bud right now. I'm partaking in some of the some
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of the narrative coming out of Dodgers Stadium and a
lot of the bloviating cheese steak loving pretzel eating Philadelphia
sportsmans are like, Wow, the Phillies have all the momentum.
Now they've got all the momentum. The only momentum I
know is Uncle Mo, and he lives over in Jersey.
I used to know this guy named Ozzie momentum, but
he kind of retired from the show, so I don't
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know any other momentum in that momentum does not exist
in sports. I will die on that mountain because I'm
right and everyone else is an idiot. Momentum is simply
an after the fact explanation. If you believe in momentum,
then the Dodgers should have won this game. They had
all the momentum. They won the first two games. They
had nothing leading this game. You'm a motor retired nine
of the first ten batters. There is no such thing
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as momentum. It is merely an explanation for after the fact,
meaning it is ignored when the team that is alleged
to have all the momentum loses. For example, we'll get
to the American League later on next hour. But the Yankees,
I was told by Dark Jeter on Fox the Yankees
had all the momentum in that series because they won.
They scored a bunch of runs late in the blowout
(11:08):
Game two, and then they came back in one game three,
and so how'd that work out? It doesn't, It doesn't exist,
all right. Now, now we get to the good stuff.
Now here's a batting practice fastball. As a longtime radio
professional text me from another location, Mallard. He says, your
night is made, and I said, you know what, You're right.
We had the rare and appropriate sighting of playoff Kershaw.
(11:32):
I am still getting messages from you idiots about a
monologue I did when the Dodgers did a mock state funeral,
when kurshed up it's just final hope game, and I
pointed out what a failure Kershaw has been as a Dodger.
I was still got a name of it this week.
I got an email the other day, a couple days
ago from So, I heard your monologue. You know it
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always says I used to like your show, but which
means you never liked my show. Right, you never liked
my show? But whatever? Fine. So Kershaw was brought in.
He was tasked with the Dodgers were trailing. He was
tasked with keeping La within arm's length, to keep them
in the game down three to one, give them an opportunity,
allow them a chance to come back in the game.
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Against the Phillies, bullpen set up the choke factor. How
do you set the choke factor up? You're within striking
distance and that's what you gotta do. Okay, So that
was what he was asked to do, Kershaw. So you
know what I like, charity. I'm going to be charitable.
And you get a hit, You get a hit, you
get a home run, you get a home run, you
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the whole thing. The Philly hitters I actually saw on
the Turner broadcast. Their eyeballs looked like saucers. It was
like saucers, very accommodating Clayton Kershaw. In fact, six of
the phillies twelve hits, half of the hits for the
entire gate came against playoff Kershaw, Are you idiots defending
(12:57):
this guy? He got absolutely shelled. Your little hero got shelled,
you little god, your little Demi god got shelled. J. T.
Riamuto and Kyle Swarber hit bombs. Just classic, just classic. Anyway,
here is Clayton Kershaw pointing out that he was bad.
Take a listen.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Oh it's just a tough yeah, tough couple of the
seventh good played by Tayo. And then yeah, I just
did make enough good pictures. I was battling command. You know,
it's it's hard when you're trying to throw strikes as
opposed to get people out.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
So that was.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Yeah, just wasn't funny, Okay, just not a funny thing.
All right, here's the question, how did you react to
Clayton Kershaw wetting the bed? He wetted the bed yet
again at Dodger Stadium in October. So that was nostalgic
with a capital N. And it's fitting that should be
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his final outing as a Dodger. That should be it.
Either they're gonna get gonna lose this series, the Phillies
gonna come back and win the next two games and
Kershaw should go away retire after that, or the Dodgers
win this series and Kershaw should not be on the
roster in the National League Championship Series. He's washed up.
But if you want to break it down even deeper,
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you know what that really was watching Clayton Kershaw on
the mound in October baseball, That is autumn in Los Angeles.
It is autumn in Los Angeles. Now the rest of
the country gets pumpkin spice lattes, you get crisp cool air,
you get leaves changing colors, the signs of the seasons
in Los Angeles. You know that it's autumn when Clayton
(14:39):
Kershaw is writing the vomit comet over the skies around
Dodger State, and that is autumn in La Clayton Kershaw
come boom to the boom, just like that. At this point,
it's muscle memory for Clayton Kershaw. It's like he can
do it blindfolded. It even looks like he's blindfolded. On
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the mound in every October, the man steps on the mound,
he's got the shoulders slump, the face looks like he
just found out someone keyed his brand new tesla. You know,
Kershaw's serving up for let right down the middle, right
down the middle, batting practice fastballs. He called those the
five thirty fastballs, right down the middle. And the phillies.
(15:21):
They weren't so much swinging bats up there. They were
swinging tennis rackets, is what they were doing. And despite
this rich catalog of suck, every single time It is
the most fascinating thing the study of hero worship. Every
single time the Kershaw apologist in southern California crawl out
from under their palm trees and they give the same speech.
(15:42):
I'll give out the number here and you know, I'll
open up her phone calls. Of course, the Kershaw marching
and shout of society won't call in because there's really
nothing you can say. But I know the speech anyway,
I've heard it so many times over the last fifteen years.
I don't need you to call up and give me
the speech. It's well, you know, but ye, yeah, but yeah,
but he's a Hall of Famer, yeah but yeah, but yeah,
he's done so much for the city. Yeah but yeah,
(16:05):
or you have his Dave Roberts fault, Yeah but yeah,
but yeah, but yeah. Okay, I've heard it all. I've
heard it all. I've seen it all. Okay, Right, so
he did a lot for the city. Great, so did
the guy who invented the snuggie. Uh, you want to
put him in the Hall of Fame. Doesn't mean I
want him pitching in a postseason game. I don't. I don't.
(16:25):
I doubt the mayor of Barf City and the numbers
since twenty twenty three. Kershaw's era in the postseason is horrific.
Since twenty eighteen, he's got an ERA five point one,
and since twenty twenty three has earned run average is
forty two point eight. That's not a misprint. Forty two
point eight postseason era since the start of the twenty
(16:47):
twenty three postseason. That is baseball armageddon. And and the
body of language with Kershaw is another great part of this, right.
Nobody does it better the I just gave up another
bomb face than Clayton Kershaw. He's got it down. It
is art. It is performance art by Clayton Kershaw. The
head down, that little lip twitch thing that he's got
(17:08):
a little shuffle around the mound, you cue the organ music,
the mock funeral, and as Jim Nantz would say, tradition
unlike any other. Now that would be the that should
be it. And they're gonna give him like seven statues
because the Dodgers are all about that action now, So
why not give Kershaw a statue of him with the
head down, the shoulder shrug and all that worst big
(17:31):
game picture of the modern era. And it's not even close.
The guy is a picasso on a Wednesday night against
the Rock He's at Dodger Stadium and against the Phillies
in a playoff game in October on a Wednesday night.
It's a finger painting. It's a kindergarten piece of art,
is what it is. And they had to dig up
the mound after every postseason Shelly, it's essentially a crime
(17:53):
scene when Kershaw so bad, guys, He's bad, all right. Now,
last word to Chicago we go and this this was
not a closed out game. It could have been, but
believe it or not, the Cubbies for your Femi and
Eugene in Chicago, and Tree and all my guys in
the mallad militia there in Chicago. The Cubs showed that
they are not ready to just roll over and go
(18:14):
on vacation and go down to cancuon tee times on hold,
as Chicago put up a four run spot on the
Brewers start at Quinn Priester in the first thing. But
this series, what is going on? All these runs scored
early and then not a whole bunch of runs scored
after that. But Quinn Priester on the mound was amazing
for the Brewers. In the regular season in the first inning,
(18:36):
and then the Cubs had to hold on. They scored
all of their runs in the first inning and did
just enough to win by the hair on their chinny
chin chin as they got a strong effort from the
bullpen there. The Brewers did, but not enough so they
couldn't come all the way back four to three the
final in favor of the team from Chicago, so we
(18:57):
get a game four later on on Thursday. Now, after
the game, Quinn Priester he playing the blame game. He
pointed the finger entirely at himself. He said, quote everyone
else played real well, with the exception of myself. That's
entirely on me. Close quote all right, question, does Brewers
(19:19):
starter Quinn Priester taking the blame work for you? So
the way I'll answer this is, I do enjoy athletes
just admitting they sucked. I think that's important. I'll give
you a puffy sticker for owning it. That said, it
does not change the fact that he shriveled up like
a grape in the sun. Who This is a guy
(19:39):
that had been big balls, Bob our guy from Vegas
big balls all regular season. And so I'll give you
a little bit of a golf clap. I'll call you
a mensch. Congratulations, you're a mensch for saying that they
don't hand out like parade floats and all that for
quality quotes. In Milwaukee had opportunities, like they were playing
(20:00):
with matches. Eventually they got burned here and now they
got to sweat it out. Right, Now you got to
sweat it out. You get you know, game four suddenly
becomes a bigger deal. I would play Game four like
it's Game five and you have Game five in your
back pocket. But the Cubs, now they can smell blood
in the ivy. Should not be blood in the ivy.
Maybe Doc Mike puts them out there in the ivy.
But Chicago, they've turned this thing into a little bit
(20:22):
more of a street fight. Not quite there yet. There
is no such thing as momentum. But in terms of
circling back to Quinn Priester taking the blame and all that,
a guy that dominated during the regular season. Remember, as
the baseball marketing slogan from years ago went legends are
born in October, Well legends also die in October. If
you want reference, look at Clayton Kershaw for an example.
(20:45):
So you've got to do better, and you've got to
be better, and there's no guarantee this guy gets another start.
That could be all she wrote. That could be the
end of the road in terms of playoff baseball for
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this is the National League Hour breaking down the mostly
the Dodger Phillies game. But because that's that series. Wow,
(23:52):
do you want to be kidding me? Yeah? Well, but
also the Cubs and the Brews. You want to talk
about that. I watched both games and slipping back and forth.
They're a little Chile in Chicago. It's getting to October.
Nowns there you little cold La not so much, not
so much. But the Dodgers serve up some meatballs there,
vintage Kershaw performance, the dwarf Man writes, And this guy's
(24:14):
a big time comic, he says. Whenever Turnshaw is on
the mound, they always cut to a shot of Sandy Kovax.
That is so crazy. When Kofax is there for the playoffs,
they fly him and he lives in Florida, they fly
him in for the playoffs, and that you're right, it's
like they have a production meeting before every playoff game.
Is all right with perch Shaw's in cut to Sandy Kofax,
and the Darfman points out, as if these two are
(24:36):
in the same universe. I know, it's so stupid. Sports
Plus tells us that Pasadena is about ten miles from
Dodger Stadium. So yeah, Schwarber's home run landed. It actually
landed on Colorado Boulevard, right near that cheesecake factory on
Colorado Boulevard. Is amazing, Nature Boy says, I gotta admit
(24:57):
that he answers the call of the while he's yeah,
a ranger. Ranger is a cool name, he says, Rangers
a cool name, and the Dodgers just need to stave
off eighth inning relief pitchers and they'll be fine. That's
what they gotta do. What else do we have to see?
Page nin This guy Donut. I think we found Kershaw's
(25:19):
burner account. The Donut I believe is the name there.
He's a very heard, he's got his dodger once, he's
he's a little shrine to Kershaw, a little fanboy shrine
to Kershaw. What a dope? What else do we have?
This is a I laugh? Oh god, So I love
this job. It's because of people like that that I
(25:39):
love this job. The people that just are losers, Oh
my god, I love the losers. Big Lou rites in
from the LBC, says Clayton Kershaw. His pitches looked similar
to Mallord pitching at the Inland Empire sixty six ers game. Well,
Big Lou, first of all, you're wrong. You're referring to
(26:01):
the pitch. I believe that was in Bakersfield with the
old Bakersfield Blaze, with Rod, the Ambassador of Bakersfield. We
went out there throughout the first pitch years ago, had
a great time. It was magical and hopefully I'm hoping
if things work out with our buddy Mike in New Hampshire,
and in the Leprechaun, we pushed back our Boston sojourn.
(26:21):
We want to honor Masshole Mickey who passed away last year.
And hopefully we can go to a WU Socks game
and like throw out the first pitch there. That'll be
like the next time, hopefully if all things line up
in the summer of twenty twenty six, and I will
show everyone the velocity, the ferocity that I have on
(26:42):
the mound. Hugh on the five, all right, since it's
been my exact comment when Kershank got on the mound
was Kershaw is going to end his career barfing? And yeah,
that's exactly what happened. Mark, the full name guy says
two two is a third, not a quarter of or
(27:02):
one force of the devil six sixty six Shobert really
caused you some brain damage? Well, no, Mark, I could
do a perfect show. I just want to make sure
that you're paying attention. So occasionally I'll throw a mistake
in there because I know you're so so tight. Shall
we say, you got to stick up your keyster that
you're going to comment when I make a mistake, But
(27:23):
I do it intentionally. I do it for you. Otherwise
I can do a perfect show. If I choose to
do a perfect show, I'd like to throw mistakes in
just to make sure you're listening. Keep you on your toes.
Thank you for that, Thank you. That's what I'm here for. Yes, exactly.
Mark's retired as a caller. He could not handle. And
it's not easy to be a talk radio caller. You
gotta stay ont hold for a while. You don't know
(27:44):
when I'm gonna go to you. You don't know how
much airtime you're gonna get. It's not that easy. It's
it is a grind. And much like professional athletes have
to retire from calling talk radio, Mark the full name guy,
his body could not handle it. Jason the Diamond Man
writes and says, if you look up vomit comet in
the dictionary, the eighth inning of that game is the
(28:05):
picture under it. Ben Mahler, without a doubt, the perfect
a block of our number one. Well, thank you, number
I do appreciate that, very kind. All right, let's go
to the phones and let's see who do we have
here page. Let's go, Let's go to j. Who's in La. Hello, J,
(28:28):
You're on Fox Sports Radio. It is the Ben Mahler Show.
Speaker 7 (28:32):
Hello J Mallard, how are you?
Speaker 1 (28:35):
If I was any better, I'd be a Shaw, but
not Kershaw because he got lit up.
Speaker 7 (28:41):
He did, he did, But I don't blame him. I
just think that day hung him out to dry. And
with that being said, I think all the energy was
wasted in his first innings. I just want to know
who your team is, because if you thinksh All was
the worst guy out there, who would you have thrown
(29:04):
out there?
Speaker 1 (29:06):
By the way, you know what I love about you
is I mentioned in the monologue all of the excuses
the Kershaw marching in shadow society, I think, and you
just repeated them verbatim. I mean, my god, just you literally,
just you that was a carbon copy what I just said.
He literally by ten minutes. Ten minutes ago. I did
(29:28):
a fifteen, I did a monologue, and I went through
all of the excuses the Kershaw clan give, and you
just laid them all out perfectly. Are you psyched? Then?
Apparently I am. I had no idea blame Dave Roberts.
It's oh my god, how about some accountability? How about Kershaw?
How about him? How about you sure retired? He's hurting
(29:49):
the Dodgers yet again. How about the fact that guy's
cost him three championships? How about that who is.
Speaker 7 (29:55):
Better than Khaw? This age?
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Anybody in the playof Are you, my god? Are you
out of your bloody mind? I know you're a little fanboy,
but my god, the guy blows? What do you want?
My god? Are you trolling me? This must be you're
trolling me? Right, You've got to be troubling. You can't
be a human being that watches baseball and say who
else is better than Kershaw? My god, historically in the
(30:21):
baseball has been played since the eighteen eighties or whatever.
He's one of the worst all time in big games?
Who would you go to at that point when they're oh,
my god, when there's no ball behind them? You do
understand Kershaw shouldn't eve be on the roster? Do you
understand that? Like he's done, He's been done for years.
Speaker 7 (30:41):
That is how terrible the bullpen I will get.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Are you agree with mine?
Speaker 7 (30:45):
That are?
Speaker 1 (30:45):
But don't don't blame Day. I love ripping Day Roberts
as much as anybody, but don't blame Roberts on this. Okay,
Kershaws have grown up. He gives me so Kershaw sucks
so much, so you're admitting he blows that he can
only pitch one eating. The guy stinks that you snuck
him out there. You got an inning out of him,
and he's so bad. You gotta take Kershew off the mounta.
(31:07):
You're telling me that more. Alright, I got I gotta go.
Thank you, all right, I appreciate it's gonna go bang
my head against Isn't that great? Lorena? I mean, I
literally I was mocking the Kershaw marching in shout of Society,
and my man Jay immediately calls up and repeats the
(31:28):
talking points memo that I laid out word for word.
Oh my god, oh my god. Yes, all right, but
I do like the Dodgers, But unlike guys like David Vasse,
I'm actually critical of the Dodgers. I don't lick the
player's toes, unlike those guys. Jonathan in Delaware. There's sound
(31:49):
of it right there, Jonathan Delaware, he writes in He says,
all I have to say about Clayton Kershaw is Seriously, though,
is there a worse big game picture than him, especially
considering how good he's been in the regular season. I've
never seen anything like it. He always has the yips
in the postseason. I hope they start him every single game. Yeah,
(32:11):
he says Jonathan in Delaware, laughing at the Doyers. Well again,
he should not pitch again. They should just take him
off the playoff roster and that's it. Super Market Steve says,
what's your opinion or what's opinion rather? Do you think
incites more rage from the bleeding heart Dodger fan base?
(32:31):
Your opinion that Clayton Kershaw was overrated or my opinion
that Vin Scully was overrated. I've had people take swings
at me because I told him I didn't like Vin. Well, yeah,
the Vin thing's more offensive. The Vin things more offensive.
The people that think Kershaw is overrated or right. The
(32:54):
people that think Scully was overrated are wrong. See there's
a difference there. There's a point of demarkation with that conversation.
Texas Bryan, who's still mourning the loss of Luka Doncik
to the Lakers, He says, the Doyer's bullpen was so pathetic.
I swear I saw Sandy Kofax yelling down to Dave
Roberts put me in coach LA's cooked, Philly's got the juice.
(33:16):
Now there is no juice. Stop with that. Listen. I
love bashing Kershaw on the Dodgers when they play like that.
There's no woman. The Dodgers can come back, go win
with Glass. Now the series will be over. That's it now.
I personally hope there is a Game five this weekend.
I would like to see it because I love that situation.
The choke factor is very high, and I'm there for it.
Fat Daddy writes in he says, you nailed your monologue.
(33:39):
I was wondering, is there away? Dave Roberts is eligible
for the wild card and the next In the next round,
Daniel says. Vassay says, for every time Kershaw has a
bad outing, he can give an example of a good one.
Can we give you two on a debate? Get you
on two hundred? Debate about it soon. Well, it's harder
(34:01):
to bait Vessa because he's buddy buddies with those guys,
so he's kind of compromised. So I'm not friends with
those guys, so I can actually give an honest opinion.
When your buddies with him, it becomes a problem. It's
like Howard Stern. First, you know Stern lost it years ago.
But when he was good at talk radio, he never
wanted to be friends with celebrities because he wanted to
ask him tough questions things like that. And it's true,
(34:23):
once he became friends with celebrities, his show was terrible.
That was the point his show started sucking when he
started becoming friends with all the people he used to
goof on and he wanted to be friends with him.
And so it's general, you gotta you gotta have some
separation from that, definitely, Rob writes in and says mallardly
Dodgers cheerleader and sycophant. On Suicide Watch, he says about
(34:47):
about to lose Game four is going on. I don't,
I don't know what that means. I'm I expect him
to lose. I hope they win, but I expect them
to lose. I don't. I don't know what you're talking about, Scrooge,
says Ben. How can you not blame Dave Roberts. We
all know, oh, Kershaw does not show up in the
postseason yet. Roberts is the jackass who keeps on throwing
Kershaw out there, knowing he's got a decade of experience
(35:09):
choking away games when they met. Well, Roberts says, well,
I liked him in that spot. I liked him in
that spot, is what he says. It is the ben
malechow random Ryan writes in He's in Carolina, he says,
a plus in a five piece of smoked Carolina gold barbecue. Yummy, yummy, yummy.
Can I get some brisket wing? He says, barbecue wings.
(35:32):
I'll take that. Not a monologue. Didn't see any baseball
tonight because I was at work, but I'm pretty sure
it happened. Yeah, I did. It did, Actually, it did happen.
There were I mean not. You know, it's all day.
It's like NonStop. It's like a lot of baseball from
like the afternoon to the nighttime, the whole of the
whole shebang. So the Toronto Blue Jays, we're talk more
(35:56):
about this as we go through the night. The Blue
Jays have eliminated, exterminated the Yankees from the postseason. The
Yankees are out of the baseball postseason, and so the
victor goes to music and in the visitors' locker room
at Yankee Stadium, Toronto, celebrating with champagne. The Bubbly Bath
theres they advanced to the Final four of Major League Baseball,
(36:20):
and the Blue Jays cranked up the old boom box
in the locker room, and they were playing New York,
New York in the locker room, the iconic Sinatra song
there in a celebration to troll the Yankees. And sure
some Yankee fanboys will be triggered by that, But maybe
you should win some of these series and then people
can't be doing that in your ballpark. I'm just saying.
(36:41):
I'm just pointing that out time now for the who
am I? Game? This is where I pretend to be
somebody else else. We call it the who am I Game.
We'll also have the play of the Night. We'll get
to that, but here is the who am I Game?
Since pitch tracking first started way back in nineteen eighty eight,
so that's a long time ago, I am the only
reliever to allow home run on the first pitch I threw,
but still pitch five or more innings and earn a
(37:05):
victory in a postseason game against its pitch tracking started
in nineteen eighty eight, I am the only reliever ever
in that time period to allow a home run on
the first pitch but throw five plus innings and earn
a victory in a postseason game. Who Am I. We'll
get to that and we'll do it next.
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(38:18):
pay off the who Am I? Game in a minute.
But first time now for the play of the day.
And hadn't seen this in a long time. I guess
they hadn't purchased the right the right ingredients to make
the bomb. But there was the play of the night,
the play of the night at Dodgers Stadium, the Dodgers
(38:38):
and the Phillies, and it was the tire Raq player
the night. Kyle Schwarber at the.
Speaker 8 (38:43):
Plate, He's from the right side. That ball's crushed steep
to right field. Hernandez doesn't even move. It is long gone.
HiT's off the roof for the pavilion in right field.
Kyle Schwarber his first postseason home run of the year.
It's his twenty second of his career and with a
lightning strike, the Phillies tie it up at one and.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
That would be the first of two home runs. The
second one kind of half a home run kiming us Kershaw.
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should be time now though for the who am I game?
This is where we pretend to be somebody else. A
blatant attempt to get you to listen a little bit longer.
Since pitch tracking started in nineteen eighty eight, I am
the only reliever to allow home run on the first
pitch I threw, and still tossed five or more innings
and earned a victory in a postseason game. That is
the question. What's the answer? Femi in Minnesota going with
(39:52):
Ted Cruz, Jaba Chamberlain from Malibu, Rubin switch pitcher Greg A. Harris,
who to be confused with Greg W. Harris, the Alien Opiner.
I remember him more as a Red Sox, but you
sent a picture of him as an expo. Biggie Smalls
from Bobby and Florida. David Passe from Mallo prop Guy,
(40:12):
Freddie Simpson from Mister Irrigation. That's his answer, Marianna RIVERA
guess by Andy in Line o' Lakes, Minnesota. Bob walk Man. Yeah,
he still looks the same, by the way, mister nice guy.
He's doing. He does some Pirates games on TV. I
liked him better when he ran Yes, Ferd Dog went
(40:33):
with Aaron Judges' playoff moment. Yeah, remember that embarrassing for
Joe Davis. He said Aaron Judge at his playoff ball,
but it was so stupid. Oh my god. Shane and
de Mone going with former game cock Sidney Rice as
his answer. Connie Stevens from William Dieter brocus by rich
in Vegas. It's his answer. Fun size Ken Rosenthal from
(40:55):
The Nature Boy. All right, Loreno, what say you? Lorrain
up aunt Jemima and Jemima she got canceled. No, it
is incorrect. The correct answer. It just actually happened on
Wednesday night Ranger Suarez of the Philadelphia Phillies against the Dodgers.
In fact, not only the postseason since nineteen eighty eight
(41:16):
that had not happen in the regular season, so historical
night for Ranger Suarez
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